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PARLOR GAME.

N0. 412,297. Patentedflct. 8, 1889.

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UNITED STATES PATENT FFICE.

ALBERT E. RUTHERFORD, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS; EMILY- RU'IHERFORD AD- MINISTRATRIX OF SAID ALBERT E. RUTHERFORD, DECEASED.

PARLOR-GAM E.

4 SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 412,297, dated October 8, 1889.

Application filed January 29, 1889. Serial No. 297,973. (No model.)

To all whom it may colwern: divisions, and opposite each guard-house are Be it known that I, ALBERT E. RUTHER- colored divisions j j, opposite to each other FORD, of Chicago, in the county of Cook and in both of said rows, leading to the goal or State of Illinois, have invented anew and usecenter of the field 71:, which I term victory. 5 ful Parlor-Game, of which the following is a Of the inner divisions f all but the four difull, clear, and exact description, reference visionsj therein are of a given color, while being had to the accompanying drawings, the divisionsj, j, g, and h are of a color difforming a part of this specificatiomin whichfering from that of the spaces f.

Figure 1 is a plan view of a game-board In lieu of the concentric circles for divid- 60 1o embodying my invention; and Fig. 2 is alike ing the spacesfg, it is obvious that said spaces view in detail of a portion of said board, may be arranged to representahollow square,

showing a modification of said invention. as shown in Fig. 2.

Like letters of reference in both figures in- Said game may be played as follows by two dicate like parts. or more players: Assuming that each player 65 The object of my invention is to provide a is allowed five men, which I have found to parlor-game simulating a warlike contest, in be the number mostconvenient for ordinary which two or more players may engage, using purposes, the men are first placed in opposite men in a manner somewhat analogous to barracks, and then upon throwing the dice their use upon a checker-board, and in which the men are moved upon the skirmish-grounds 7o the throwing of dice is preferably resorted to to take whatever position the player may deto govern the movement of the players, all of sire, limited only by the path of movement which is hereinafter more particularly deindicated by the spaces and the number desscribed and claimed. ignated by the dice thrown at each play. A

Referring tothe drawingsArepresents my single man may be moved over as many 75 2 5 improved game-board, the four outer corners spaces as are designated by the dice, or two of which are apportioned into squares b, which or more men maybe moved, provided the sum I prefer to designate as barracks. Of the of the moves equal no more than the number same width as said square, and intervening thrown. In order to permit an opponent to between the same and connecting with each be taken up, such a number must be thrown 8o other at the corners, are oblong rectangular by the player as will enable any one of his fields 0, divided into alternately colored men to reach the space covered by an oppossqua-res like an ordinary checker-board, which ing man. If an opponent be taken up upon fields I term the skirmish-grounds. Said the skirmish-grounds, he maybe sent back to skirmish grounds are divided into an odd his own barracks. If taken up upon the bat- 85 5 number-of squares-by preference fifty-five tlefield, he may be confined in the guardand so arranged that the colored squares house nearest his own barracks, from which upon which the men are moved connect with he may escape to his own barracks upon each other at the four inner corners, as shown throwing such anumber as may be previously at d d d (I. The space inclosed within the determined upomwhereupon he may re-enter 9o skirmish-grounds c, I term the battle-field. the skirmishground and continue in the In each of the four corners of said battle-field play. If desired,a blockadd maybe formed is a station indicated by means of a circle 6, inside of the battle-field with a predeterwhich I term the guard-house. I also armined number of 1nen.-two, for example-of range within said circle a double row of dithe same kind. In such an event the 0ppos- 5 1,5 visions f g, preferably divided by means of ing player must move around the blockade, concentric circles, each row being divided which he is free to do in any way most coninto thirty-two divisions. Midway between venient. Either player may move back from each guard-house is a division h or way h, the battle-field upon the skirmish-ground and which may be of the same'color as the genre-enter the battlefield from another point, :00

5o eral divisions g, connecting the skirmishor, if desired, may move a portion of his men ground with the outer row g of said interior directly toward the goal and deploy others upon the skirmish-ground upon the opposite side of the board to harass the opposing men and prevent their entry. A player may capture an opponent within any space outside of the victory-goal, and upon the entry therein of a majority of his men he may be declared the victor; but until he gets a given number such as a majority or all of his men-Within the goal they are subject to recapture.

It is obvious that any specific rules may be employed and variations may be made therein to suit the players so long as they are included Within the general principles of said invention.

Having thus described my invention, I clain1- 1. A game-board provided with four spaces upon the periphery at equal distances from each other, intervening parallelograms inclosing a square and divided into alternate checkered spaces, stations or spaces at or near the respective corners of said central square, a double row of spaces Within said central square inclosing a goal or home, ways leading from said parallelograms, respectively, to the outer of said double row of spaces, and intervenin g ways leading directly to said goal, substantially as shown and described.

2. A game-board consisting of a square having square divisionsat the corners, intervening checkered fields connecting with each other at the inner corners, ways leading there-- corner barracks b, intervening checkered 4o skirmish-grounds 0, Ways h, spaces fig, j, and

j, guard-houses e, and acentral goal, substantially as shown and described.- r v In testimony whereof I have signed this specificatiomin the presence of two subscrib- 45 ing Witnesses, this 23d day of January, 1888.

ALBERT E. RUTHERFORD. Witnesses:

D. H. FLETCHER, J HALPENNY. 

